If some gemstone really has a really fascinating past, it’s none other than Peridot that has been serving in many various well-known civilizations and cultures for quite some time. Spiritual leaders and religious head used periodt for many different purposes and regarded that stone for its exceptional and inspiring healing powers. Peridot used to mine even in the days way back 1500BC as some descriptions about this gemstones have been found on pre-historic dens’ walls. Though the mention of this gemstone has been done in many different manuscripts of old civilizations, in ancient Egypt we find a lot of tales related to this stones. Many people believe that Cleopatra’s well-known emeralds were peridots in actual, but they were reckoned emeralds at that time.
It’s true that history of peridot is quite different from almost all well-known gemstones. Aside from diamonds and peridots, almost all well known gemstones form in the crust of the earth and that is the thing which makes these stones quite different from others. Peridot and diamonds are two those gemstones that form much deeper in the earth and they come up because of volcanic or tectonic activity. In ancient world, Topazos Island was the main source of peridot, the stone was also abundantly found at St. John’s Island in the Egyptian Red Sea. The mention of this stone is also found in the history of Pliny.